Iraq Rail Service Back on Track After War With ISIS

Iraq Rail Service Back on Track After War With ISIS
Passengers sit aboard the train on the way to Fallujah after leaving Baghdad Railway Station, the newly resurrected service to the city, in Baghdad, Iraq on Nov. 7, 2018. Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters
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BAGHDAD/FALLUJA, Iraq—At Baghdad’s grand but half-empty railway station, a single train is sputtering to life. It is the newly revived daily service to Falluja, a dusty town to the west once infamous as a Sunni insurgent stronghold.

The driver and conductor assure that the tracks running through Anbar province are now clear of mines planted by ISIS and of collapsed bridges the group blew up when it marauded through western and northern Iraq in 2014.